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Kentucky Flood

Famous image of African American flood victims lined up

to get food & clothing fr. Red Cross relief station in front of billboard

ironically extolling WORLD'S HIGHEST STANDARD OF LIVING/

THERE'S NO WAY LIKE THE AMERICAN WAY.

Location: Louisville, KY, US

Date taken: February 1937

Photograph: Margaret Bourke-White

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